Compartir esta entrada

list
1

sustantivo

1A number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:consult the list of drugs on page 326 figurativeif you’re buying a new car, put security high on your list of priorities

Frases

enter the lists

As Dan departed the Cheltenham stage that he had graced for so long, his son Arthur entered the lists.

It might seem foolhardy of Hough to enter the lists in such over-recorded repertoire, but the British pianist is a special kind of virtuoso, presenting, in these live tapings, a particular point of view.

Derivados

listable

With youngsters soon to move into a modern building after the half-term break, councillors decided the Victorian building school should be retained for the city - despite officers' views that it was not ‘of listable quality’.

If we constrain ourselves to thinking that any external object is limited to some set of listable properties, then we miss out on William Blakes’ ‘eternity in a grain of sand.’

Adding them to those in the list indicates a possibility of a further 29 listable entities should the state either partially or totally privatize the mentioned parastatals.

In the sense ‘a number of connected items or names’, list came from French in the late 16th century. The origin of the French word appears to be the root of another list that already existed in English, with the meaning ‘a border, edge, or strip’—presumably from the strip of paper on which a list would have been written. Its main use now is for the selvedge or sewn edge of a piece of fabric. The origins of to enter the lists ‘to issue or accept a challenge’ have nothing to do with signing up, but go back to the days of knights and jousting tournaments. These lists were the enclosed area where jousts took place or rather the barriers surrounding this area—but the meaning was extended to refer to the yard itself. If you chose to enter the lists you were formally agreeing to take part in combat. There was another list, now obsolete, meaning ‘desire, wish’ which still survives in listless (Middle English) literally ‘without desire’.

Origen

In the sense ‘a number of connected items or names’, list came from French in the late 16th century. The origin of the French word appears to be the root of another list that already existed in English, with the meaning ‘a border, edge, or strip’—presumably from the strip of paper on which a list would have been written. Its main use now is for the selvedge or sewn edge of a piece of fabric. The origins of to enter the lists ‘to issue or accept a challenge’ have nothing to do with signing up, but go back to the days of knights and jousting tournaments. These lists were the enclosed area where jousts took place or rather the barriers surrounding this area—but the meaning was extended to refer to the yard itself. If you chose to enter the lists you were formally agreeing to take part in combat. There was another list, now obsolete, meaning ‘desire, wish’ which still survives in listless (Middle English) literally ‘without desire’.

sustantivo

Origen

In the sense ‘a number of connected items or names’, list came from French in the late 16th century. The origin of the French word appears to be the root of another list that already existed in English, with the meaning ‘a border, edge, or strip’—presumably from the strip of paper on which a list would have been written. Its main use now is for the selvedge or sewn edge of a piece of fabric. The origins of to enter the lists ‘to issue or accept a challenge’ have nothing to do with signing up, but go back to the days of knights and jousting tournaments. These lists were the enclosed area where jousts took place or rather the barriers surrounding this area—but the meaning was extended to refer to the yard itself. If you chose to enter the lists you were formally agreeing to take part in combat. There was another list, now obsolete, meaning ‘desire, wish’ which still survives in listless (Middle English) literally ‘without desire’.